they fear moscow time misery for merck early in portugal the german chancellor is greeted with public anger and blame for the austerity strangling the country that follows mass protests saying greece to get its the cuts demanded by international lenders who got the latest just ahead for you also israel hits military targets in syria in response to mortar shells landing on its territory with spillover from syria's civil war blamed for shattering the decades long truce between the two states we gauge developments tonight. war heads roll of the b.b.c. now the news chief rather the deputy step aside over the broadcasters botched handling of child abuse claims.

in a very good evening from moscow if you just joined this my name's kevin zero in this is the first tonight protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon were chancellor angela merkel visiting right now people there blaming the german leader for their nation's economic hardships the country had to adopt severe austerity measures to receive a bailout worth almost eighty billion euros last year sarah ferguson the portuguese capital for sara good evening what is the mood like in lisbon tonight. well to sum up in one word angry it's quiet here at the moment where the crowds have gathered earlier just in front of the presidential palaces german chancellor angela merkel heard german up in her motorcade to meet with the president and the prime minister but just love five hundred meters to my right and there are huge crowds gathering and extremely extremely sour. in fact is that we've seen happening time

and again in prater sort of taken place throughout europe but not so you familiar here in portugal which is until recently been much more accepting of those austerity measures but we were with the crowd just a few moments ago that the riot police had come in they put up the barriers to separate off the crowds and we just saw the angry crowds tearing it down those barriers as they shouted and ended up in a standoff with those riot police all throughout the crowd you can see banners naming merkel herself a huge amount of anger of course directed at the german chancellor she's very much being seen as heading this all started dr as we said portugal's really being the one this be more tolerant to smoke sit out in contrast to countries like greece but as the austerity has continued and the country's entering its third year of recession we've really seen that me turn a much much angrier as he said it really is a very big contrast to what we think to date what we've seen in the everything

gathering so porter is of course the latest ripple of eurozone protest. absolutely of course as we said these asides that we used to seeing now in greece just the other day we have the small protests but we close again and again it was to gas and clashes on the streets of athens they just her story not the budget measure that's causing huge anger in the country you know this is really a euro wide problem in a couple of days we're going to see portugal joined by greece joined by spain joined by a number of other. and she's killed in a euro white general strike remember back you know so again this is very much pastis just a greek problem they were the ones they needed sorting out german chancellor angela merkel she was very much tougher these southern european countries were not she's doing the rounds we saw her in greece a month ago met with wide public discontent and again today in portugal that she was expecting a warmer welcome and she certainly hasn't got the one that the anger that we've

seen here today in portugal absolutely mirroring what with things happening all across europe at the moment you know travel across europe for you for euro talking going to brussels today as well as. these billion dollar bailout the talks continue here all eyes are going to be on that meeting today of of course top of that list is going to be great is going to be getting that next tranche of money it's actually quite embarrassing for the greek government of the moment that's being delayed greece it seems on the brink of bankruptcy at the moment they really need that cash is it likely that today we're going to see come out of that meeting is actually an interim measure until they agree that next chunk of money to start actually thinking into bankruptcy and at the same time a lot of people are going to have their eyes a very sharply watching what's going on here today and liston is going to cause a lot of concern brussels needed a success story they needed portugal to be the southern european state that was

managing to climb out of the recession unemployment has hitting record highs of fifteen percent now you've got huge cuts they're facing one of the strictest most stirred strong budget cuts but in recent times i'm ready you can see the impact that that is having on the people here portugal is losing patience europe is losing patience you call that general strike in a few days and really that sentiment echoed all across the continent right now for ice or for supposed realistic service so much for updating us from lisbon is pretty sure. no italy seeks to settle scores coming up soon by suing the credit agencies that downgraded it accusing of firms of market manipulation developing story tonight we've got more on that in fall in just a few minutes time. the syrian conflict continues to break its borders with israel now feeling the ripple effect the jewish state's fired missiles over the border for two consecutive days in response to mortar

shells landing in the golan heights that is paula sleepers go more on that. a mortar shell landed in an open area near the vicinity of in his lady defense force a military base in the occupied golan heights it did not cause any injuries or damage but israel immediately responded and fired shells now according to israeli military sources they did hit a syrian mobile artillery but we have no more information at this stage in connection with that but certainly the israeli army confirming that they were direct hits taken on the syrian side now the audio has also issued a complaint with the united nations forces in the area they say that any kind of fire into israel from syria will not be tolerated and that israel will deal with this in the harshest terms this is the second straight day that they has been a mortar fired from syria landing in northern israel the first incident saw israel

responding with warning shots but what is significantly different today is that we are witnessing direct hits now there has been a truce in place between israel and syria since one thousand nine hundred seventy three and for the better part of the last four decades there has been an easy peace between these two countries but those latest incidents certainly is sending alarm bells and people are significantly worried that the situation could escape having said this is well does not believe that the mortars that landed in israeli territory were targeted to wardes israel but they're rather they are the by products of the fighting that is happening inside syria between rebel forces and forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad. meanwhile syria's structured opposition is finally agreed on the formation of a unified political body of tomorrow for talks and capital the deal is the result of pressure from the u.s. and its european are about those who want to see the current syrian regime toppled but some analysts are questioning whether the newly formed rebel coalition is

taking the syrian people's interests in tokyo. from the very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i think there's a strong argument to say that they don't have widespread support within syria i think a fundamental point which has been. a future affairs of an independent software in country being discussed by foreign governments in a foreign country that is absolutely rageous we're talking about the united nations the pillars of the united nations states. being completely undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also the legal ones the international who are. the

baby season a bad way tonight botched journalism false child abuse accusations and revelations of decades of paedophilia. do feel the heat the broadcasters head of news of the deputy or the latest to step aside just days after the director general quit his or smith reports from london director general george and wessel resigned over the weekend saying that it he felt it was the honorable thing to do but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his here early pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say in effect truly trying to fight these fires that keep on breaking out of the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve master and he said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as

a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flags. current affairs program news night and all it only off to that was this steve messam showing a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all if that hadn't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile that program was spiked by b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was done of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc. so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they say i still follow b.b.c.

news and business and yeah i still just as easy say we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c. is an easy thing you see. is something that really is very unfortunate you can't control the charlie rose asian film so i still trust the more you put into. the free. world. the b.b.c. over a number of years has made a series of blunders and been involved in a number of decisions which have strained somewhat poor judgment. to do with the reporting of the conflict in the middle east and also an incident surrounding syria where the b.b.c. used to photograph that was taken in iraq in two thousand and three but used it to illustrate a massacre in the syrian city of and there was also back in two thousand and three a very serious instance where a b.b.c. journalist revealed to david kelly was the source for his report that the government had sex stop the dossier on the weapons of mass destruction in iraq

which of course led to the invasion of iraq. after being outed in that way was subsequently found dead again in the wake of that the director general resigned but this is this is an erosion of trust really that's been going back for some years. well british pager our bathroom says the b.b.c. could now lose its fewest trust be institutionalized lity of the b.b.c. i mean it's fairly transparent in many of the stories that they travel in stories spread sample and membership of the european union or mass immigration crying the riots in europe last year in london's you do a very kind of left wing politically correct quasar marxist view of the world from the b.b.c. states that they have an interest in presenting stories in a certain why and of course now we've got the saudi problem or the climb in professional standards that we've seen with the jimmy savile issue and now a lively issue against the law because certain suits are here so i think that you

know the power of the public are waking up to the problems with the baby say what you can apparently a long long time. ahead so tonight the sex scandal of force the resignation of former cia chief snowballs a report on where the revelations of the affair a part of a bigger political cover up leaders on that ahead. bank could now be teetering on the edge of a new israeli led offensive we've got more of that too after this short break. as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to a flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of teavana thirty five years old it wasn't the life he didn't tell having studied accounting but he dition and familial duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter found stage setting up his ute the

traditional two fenian round tent made of disc ins he's pleased to be back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so all most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. do you think it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle contribute with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the

regions government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd or get a high at fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in the republic's capital because the old but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. hello again u.s. congress is demanding more answers from the f.b.i. over the extramarital affair which forced the cia chief to quit

a few days ago politicians say david petraeus is resignations hit them like a lightning bolt so now they want to know how much national security was compromised and why no one told them so let's go live to washington our correspondent there karen got a good evening to you. this is certainly what our peers need on the traditional love triangle no matter how you look at it. well kevin when the headlines came out saying the f.b.i. spied on the cia director many saw a certain irony in that phrase and it raised a lot of questions the head of the cia's the nation's spy number one right but then all these anonymous f.b.i. officials came out and said you know general petraeus himself was not the subject of their investigation that they were looking into allegations of one woman against another and out woman who allegedly said before a single letters e-mails turned out to be general for traces biographer of mistress so the f.b.i.

basically said they stumbled upon the cia director. and learned about his affair with this biographer and during the course of their separate investigation then a cart but of course all kinds of theories emerged mostly referring to the timing of this revelation right after the election and some argue there was more to this to his resignation that the public is allowed to know lots of speculation sort of all souls listening to the pundits here call occlusions mainstream media journalists you could say that general petraeus this fall from grace came as a shock to many because of how he was worshiped as the commander of forces in iraq and afghanistan his official referred to as the man who turned the tide in the afghan war but if you listen to other experts again if that is a mess but the message that the general has rescued the mission there kind of sunk and general petraeus was idolised to the media had to go through not the media the public had to go through a similar trauma with the other again and then general who was also idolized in

many ways and that was general general stanley mcchrystal as you remember he fell from grace and resigned when a magazine with the rolling stones magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administrations of the careers of the afghan wars two biggest names have ended abruptly and quite shockingly to many was public reaction but you touched on it. the media covering it one of the public's. vocab in the media here of course were all over the portray a scandal when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them spinning all over again we heard discussions about how the level of to stop and affect the men's judgment and all those images of this woman the mistress or they were all over the place and she happens to be quite a beautiful woman i mean in my judgment in general petraeus his judgment as well apparently the media have savored every detail of this story one thing that was said it actually said to watch with actually is what the agency and i mean the

cia is doing doesn't get that much coverage things like how they pick targets with this targeted assassinations program things that the public should want to know it's national security it secret but when it comes to the director's bedroom all of a sudden everybody wants to know and the media here are there to question every detail of this supposed love triangle as far as say collateral damage from drone strikes not as interesting. thank you very much for giving us the view from washington d.c. appreciated. what investigative journalist james colbert spoke to see thinks there's a much bigger political picture going on behind the scenes to this story. the question has to be why this scandal is emerging now why is it it is embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this

actually we can start to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact the last month general petraeus is alleged mistress this of broadwell was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in benghazi was being used as a secret prison which is why it was why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down but to petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the sex scandal that is that supposedly made out to be right back to our top stories gets more comment on that visit to a bailed out portugal that's causing

a stir to discuss the latest events in the eurozone we're joined by. labor the libertarian party of res and he's also a journalist and author therefore we're delighted that he's on our to international going to. the portuguese as we've been reporting the beginning of this hour taking a very personal while they so angry when it's their government's decisions out of the day. of course they are angry and i would be angry too when people are in trouble they get angry. and they are looking for an enemy but the problem is lee don't know who the real enemy is it is the central banking system. the paper money system and not your market. she she's got a hard sales job and she i mean time has broken time and time again as we've witnessed bailouts mr a t. have so far failed to save greece what makes angela merkel think they're going to work in portugal the now she going to sell out one. oh there she does not think

that it's working she is not optimistic she is just lying to the people this is what politicians usually do all the light of the people she knows that portugal can never pay back stopped because in the paper money system you cannot pay back that up because money is created out of dept i urge you our listeners to go to the us to an economics they are they explaining that you cannot pay back that when when the money is created out of there we're watching closely over the weekend seeing what happened last night specially in greece the a greek prime minister said that the current cuts there will be his country's last and that merkel's actually delivered quite an optimistic message on portugal. before a visit today what light at the end of the tunnel they say let the rest of the public can you put that down to lloyd's as well. it's the same answer they don't see any lie they only want to get reelected it's

a. mathematics you can't pay back the stuff but everybody knows that yet i don't they get a rather low rate of might actually was if he if that actually was the case is a bit simplistic because they're going to run out of breathing space and bang into a big brick wall quite quickly if that is the case aren't they. i mean you can take all the figures and mix them up it's simple mathematics. there's no there's no you cannot avoid but. these countries are all bankrupt they trust have to declare than that of the public but they want. a geo political consultant we spoke earlier on the program say you countries are sacrificing their interests to stay in the euro now at this point would dropping out do much harm to the economy like say greece for instance really on its uppers isn't it of course a good to the people and to the country but the harm would be even greater if you

delay to drop out of the euro zone and better to drop out of the paper money is the that's harm there's no way to avoid this paper money collapse goes this way for your kind of wide all of it that's the theory it's a strong theory you've got there what you really think is going to happen. i think they will prolonging it as long as it's possible the european stability mechanism move will inflate the currency a further and they were the banks those will make too much money out of this because now you're get the real money you get free lunch because you know that governments are buying this barnes you buy before that and you make huge profits and this is the reason why they delayed the collapse of the leader of the german libertarian party reason also to listen or think spin the program thoughts. now it's really striking back now after a slew of downgrades that sent its borrowing costs skyrocketing and its financial reputation in tatters prosecutors there are now of seeking trial of

a seven officials from standard and poor's and fitch two of the three big credit rating agencies they say the firms caused havoc to the italian economy t.g. can analyst. and he says the lawsuit shows a healthy judicial system nonetheless. well easily was in the midst of major. and these agencies going to ration markets was the all. these is greed is. the hours of the markets about the returns over the years in those decisions for greece i mean the greece through and the bleed. before it collapsed and. the end. was similar to what is easy to go through the nation states issues is the is still there is the independent probably. global governance is that the

agencies are trying to impose. now the big stories that they know israel's considering a full scale military offensive against garza following the latest round of fire exchanges with the militants from the occupied territories across the weekend around one hundred rockets landed in israel of the weekend well air strikes were launched against sites inside gaza activist and writer joe catron thinks the potential military move requires strong public backing the. terms of the way promise. in fact i don't think we're going to get joe or not no we're not ok we'll try and get that clip from joe catron a bit later for you now coming up let's see what we've got ahead for you r.t. revisit one of the deadliest man made catastrophes in history very shortly the consequences of which are still being felt to this day that program after this break.

catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me working hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies stay in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c won't

have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style sun holds a spot on. markets find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. download the

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